bluetooth not loading on Acer c720 with Debian
 

Hi all,

Trying to get Bluetooth working on Acer C720 running Debian sid.

Bluez, bluetooth-agent, blueman installed.

found this dmesg bluetooth related information:

1.723114] usb 2-4: new full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[ 1.740730] usb 2-4: string descriptor 0 malformed (err = -61), defaulting to 0x0409
[ 1.742530] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0489, idProduct=e056
[ 1.742532] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1.761269] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 1.766170] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.766171] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.779983] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
[ 1.779997] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 1.779998] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 1.780005] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 1.780007] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 1.780010] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 1.781134] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[ 1.781774] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 1.782455] input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input9
[ 1.782554] hid-generic 0003:046D:C045.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input0
[ 1.785491] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 1.785683] usb 2-4: firmware: failed to load ar3k/AthrBT_0x11020000.dfu (-2)
[ 1.785685] usb 2-4: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[ 1.785686] usb 2-4: Falling back to user helper
[ 1.786165] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
[ 1.786170] ath3k: probe of 2-4:1.0 failed with error -2

So, not loading any driver?

How to fix?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew

Did you enable the bluetooth daemon at boot?

HI,

....$ /etc/init.d/bluetooth status

returns

[ok] bluetooth is running.


Which I think means the bluetooth daemon is running.

But why the patch file fails to load?

Andrew

Hi all

Found a similar problem on a raspberry pi, which seemed similar so I tried this:

sudo apt-get install firmware-atheros

which did the trick, and now my Acer c720 is fully functional.

Andrew